> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://meet-coop-1.gitbook.io/handbook-trial/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://meet-coop-1.gitbook.io/handbook-trial/5-commons.hour/commons.hour-protocols/session-protocols.md). # Session protocols Here are the protocols for facilitating sessions in commons.hour, including commons.hour specials There is a related set of protocols for [pre- and post-session actions](/handbook-trial/5-commons.hour/commons.hour-protocols/pre-and-post-protocols.md). Sessions are on the **fourth Monday** of the month, **18:00 UTC**, in the meet.coop `commons.hour` room on the European server: . * (Spanish) dial-in number is **(34)932208649**\ SIP dial in URI is **<309817102@sip.de.meet.coop>**\ Conference PIN is **82823** A session has these segments: * Intro 5min * Presentation 15min * Open floor exchange 30min * Wrap-up 10min * Extra time 30min Roles in a session: * Facilitator: intro, flow of the meeting, moderation * Presenter : a scene-setting opening presentation, plus highlights at wrap-up stage * Open-floor contributor: brief ad hoc in main session, ad hoc informal in extra time * Community circle: nominate take-home points for the handbook, in wrap-up stage, facilitate extra time ### Intro 5min - See below for script By: Facilitators - to establish their voice in the space * Colonial language acknowledgement * Session protocols * Advertise extra time * Recording this session, options for anonymity. `Start recording here` * Soundbite on **meet.coop** (chat link to website). * Soundbite on **commons.hour** (chat link to handbook). * Hand-over to presenter (chat link to this session’s background section @ handbook). Presenter makes self-intro. ### **Presentation 15min** By: Presenter - to open the discussion. Self-intro ### **Open floor exchange 30min** By: All * Turn-taking, 'hands up', engaging all the voices in the room, being brief: an attention-demanding task for facilitators. > **Cade/Benjamin** (NDC) to work out protocols and document here (or include in the Intro script below). ### **Wrap-up 10min - See script below** * **Presenter** - highlight anything that emerged in the session, related to their intro * **Community circle** - nominate the *take-home items* from the session, for the handbook (ie potential protocols for meet.coop practice) * **Facilitator**: highlight the Forum *discussion thread* for ongoing exchange on session topics; and *announcement thread* for posting of the recording and live notes. *Chat links* to Forum. Thank you and close. Hand over to `extra time`. ### **Extra time 30min** * Facilitated by Community circle * check-in - Who we are, how we came here, how’s our weather? * `needs & offers`: standard segment * things to highlight, enquire, chat about further, notify * Highlight the forum as a news/queries medium (link to forum, community circle/FAQs) \= = = ### Script Welcome to meet.coop commons.hour. This meeting is being facilitated by xxx and by me, xxx. **Recording:** As advertised, this session will be recorded. If you would like to be anonymous you can leave the room, and re-join with an altered name. Of course you may leave your camera off. Within 24hours a link to the recording will be posted in the forum discussion thread for this session. `Link in the chat: Forum discussion thread xxx` **Protocols in this session**: * There will be 15min discussion starter, by xxx and xxx * Then 30min open-floor, contributing briefly please * To speak you can signal ‘hand-up’ using the button, or write in the chat `*speak` or `*ask` * We aim to finish on time, wrap-up commences 10min before close * You can write in the chat (saved chat will be posted in the forum). You can also send one-to-one messages in the chat (not saved or posted). * Shared notes will be made, and posted in the forum. If you would like to, you can post a personal description in the notes. `Start participants list in the notes` * At the end there will be 30min extra time, for informal check-in, ‘wants and offers’, and further discussion. We’re starting recording now. `Start recording` **meet.coop:** Welcome to meet.coop `commons.hour`. meet.coop offers a platform for online meetings, powered by renewables, running on libre software, and with a commitment to data privacy and digital safety. `Link in the chat: https://meet.coop` `commons.hour` is a monthly series of collaborative sessions, to share, learn and build a long term foundation for meet.coop in provisioning digital infrastructure under multistakeholder governance. We intend to weave **commons** and **cooperative** traditions together, in a way that can be inspirational and transformative. In these sessions we’re seeking an approach that can be reused and tweaked by others. `Link: https://meet-coop-1.gitBook.io/handbook-trial/5-commons.hour/commons.hour-project` **Here’s a colonial language apology:** We’re conducting this meeting with English (Spanish, French, etc) as the primary language. We acknowledge that our ability to speak to each other here arises within a history of white supremacy, European and global- North colonial domination, the extermination of peoples and cultures, and economic extraction and enclosure. We aim to make reparation and to transform this continuing regime. Through `commons.hour`, our Community circle and Board of stewards, and our work of digital infrastructuring, we mean . . * To engage ongoing versions of colonial supremacy and enclosure, and develop practices of **resistance** and remaking . . * To contribute to **reparation** and to affiliating, federating and organising ‘beyond the fragments’, and * To facilitate mutual aid and fairtrade in a coop-commons economy, across global and regional **uneven development**. It’s our policy to experiment in specific meetings, to discover good protocols for multi-language meetings. **Today:** The focus of today’s session is xxx. Our discussion starter is zzz of xxx; welcome zzz. Over to them: 15minutes. `Link in the chat: session background docs in the handbook or NextCloud xxx` ### Closing script We’re closing the session now. Thank you all for contributing. The forum has a thread for continuing exploration of today’s topics. Please do pitch in there, there’s much more to engage with. `Link in chat: Forum discussion thread xxx` The room will stay open now for 30 minutes **extra time**. This is an opportunity for informal check-in, and for any ‘offers and wants’ to be aired. Looking forward to seeing you at another session, the next is `Fourth Monday xxx`. `Link in chat: [commons.hour in the forum xxx] https://forum.meet.coop/c/community/commonshour/26` Handing over to the extra.time facilitators. Have a good day.